Page 31 of Hockey Bois
He’s in my clothes, he said to himself.
“You want me to take it home and wash it if it needs cleaned?” Brady offered. The words slurred together in a way that brought out the Pittsburgh in his accent.
Oh my fucking God, it’s going tosmelllike him, all drunk and sweaty…
“Nah, dude, it’s fine,” he said over his inconvenient thoughts. He might or might not have been hanging off Brady’s arm as he said it.
It was a wonderful disaster of a night, especially when Nick woke up with a headache the next morning, cuddling a musky, wrinkled Team USA jersey.
The next day, when he was too hungover to think better of it, he texted his cousins with the one irrefutable truth he’d learned from last night.
He didn’t have a crush on Brady Derek Jensen; he was completely fucking smitten.
Chapter Four: November
Nick (8:12 a.m.)
[boo pittsburgh.jpg]
[Image Description: Screenshot of a Tweet. It says, “Pittsburgh people dress like they’re terrified a stranger might pass them in the street and not know they’re from Pittsburgh.”]
Nick (8:15 a.m.)
i assume this is why you felt you needed to wear your jersey the other day
Jensie from Hockey (9:48 a.m.)
hilarious.
did you not text me all week so you could look for stupid pittsburgh memes?
Nick (10:04 a.m.)
i plead the fifth
but also
[double boo pittsburgh.jpg]
[Image Description: A picture of a meme. It reads: “When you go out of state this is the ‘I’m from Pittsburgh’ map.” It depicts a map of Pennsylvania with a circle around Pittsburgh that covers a large portion of Western PA.]
Nick (10:06 a.m.)
are you even *from* pittsburgh???
Jensie from Hockey (10:08 a.m.)
I’m from South Side yeah I’m from actual Pittsburgh I could see Downtown from my house
Nick (10:09 a.m.)
i don’t see ‘south side’ on this map
Jensie from Hockey (10:10 a.m.)
jfc
Jensie from Hockey (10:27 a.m.)
